Tag: Progress
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Norbert Wiener on Progress and Consequences
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can only achieve great things by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics…
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Norbert Wiener on the Environment, Progress
What many of us fail to realize is that the last four hundred years are a highly special period in the history of the world. The pace at which changes during these years have taken place is unexampled in earlier history, as is the very nature of these changes. This is partly the result of…